Distributed Algorithms for Message-Passing Systems

• Main Author: Raynal, Michel (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer hardware.; Computer communication systems.; Computer programming.; Computers.; Computer Science.; Theory of Computation.; Computer Communication Networks.; Programming Techniques.; Computer Hardware.

Distributed computing is at the heart of many applications. It arises as soon as one has to solve a problem in terms of entities -- such as processes, peers, processors, nodes, or agents -- that individually have only a partial knowledge of the many input parameters associated with the problem. In p...